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Northward: Peary’s 1908-09 Expedition

Twice as cold

01-02-1909 – Evening

George Wardwell

Cape Sheridan, Ellesmere Island, CAN

Thirty four below this morning and quite a good breeze blowing from the west and it seems twice as cold as it did yesterday. The Com. had a hole cut through the ice inside of the ice foot and there was forty four inches of new ice. McMillan said that wasn't any thicker than it was the first of last month, and are going to try it in a different place tomorrow.